Joaquín Barrutia Álvarez

I am a second-year Ph.D. student in Economics at Emory University. I was born and raised in Mexico City, where everyone knows me as Quino (though, of course, there’s only one Quino). I hold a B.A. in Economics from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and an M.Sc. in Economics from Uppsala University.

Previously, I worked as a Research Assistant at ITAM’s Center for Economic Research (CIE) and as a Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow at Georgetown University through the UPPER Global Research Training Initiative.

My research interests lie in the political economy of development and the economics of crime, with a particular emphasis on questions where geography and space are central. Much of my current work exploits the structure of physical and network geography to map precisely how political and criminal shocks travel and to identify their downstream effects on resource allocation, environmental outcomes, and institutional development.

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